THE RISING OF THE SERPENT: Jim Feast reviews Serpent of Fire: A Modern View of Kundalini by Darrel Irving.

WHOSE MELVILLE IS 1T?: William Lansing Brown reviews The Errant Art of Moby Dick: The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies by William V. Spanos; and Pierre, or the
Ambiguities by Herman Melville.

IRONY AND/OR AUTHENTICITY: Tyrus Miller reviews A .38 Special and a Broken Heart by Jonis Agee; and I Survived Caracas Traffic: Stories from the Me Decade by Richard Grayson.